Damnit, I'm not a fucking noob BitTorent.  I know what a .mp3 file is, I know what a .avi, .mpg, all all those extentions are.  Just LAUNCH the appopreate app for that file, and PLAY IT you stupid fucking program!

It used to launch it, now I have to manually go into windows explorer and find my torrent to run then. I can't find any setting that will change this behavor, and it's really fucking annoying.

Also, I thought I had downloaded v1.04 of BT, but it still shows 1.03 on the app it self, and in the help dialog.  But the file I downloaded SAYS 1.04. 

This sorta thing can really fuck up ones ratios if BitComet keeps downloading data when it's not saving it.  When I have files hanging on the verge of completion, it's frustrating seeing 100kb/s downloads and seeing a 10 second ETA showing for the past few HOURS. What the fuck is wrong here?

I also recently upgraded my PC to a quad core Intel, and since then I hadn't been logging my account on to bit torrent, so while I have been seeding a lot, my rank has dropped to over 900!  Aw fuck.  Turns out I've been using the wrong login name (I had been using fragalot72, DUH!)

Fortunately Comcast has jacked up my upload speeds, and I average 100kB/s on ups.  But I find this really ironic when ISPs bitch at their customers for using up so much bandwidth when using P2P apps, or streaming video in one way or another, and threating to charge us extra fees for over use of bandwidth. Yet they turn around and keep increasing our bandwidth anyway... especially on uploads this time around.

Comcast has been known for throttling P2P packets (packet shaping) and the FCC has stepped in and told them to stop.  I find this highly odd.  First of all the FCC has no jurisdiction when it comes to copyright law, but then again they aren't really there to support ways to break copyright laws.  But it sounds like the FCC is pro-network neutrality.

However, with the deep pockets of the RIAA and MPAA they would have the FCC in thier pockets already.  This is highly WEIRD, and I'm surprised Comcast has obeyed them, considering cable companies like Comcast aren't as bound to FCC regulations as phone companies are.  At least they used to be.

-- Update --

Apparently it's just "speedboost" that they applied to uploads, as well as downloads.  So it's only a temporary thing that boosts my speeds. Over time the speeds seem to settle out to normal upload speeds as I usually get.  But Comcast is experimenting with 16mB/down and 1.5mB/up speeds in some markets. They are trying to compete with Fios, and other highspeed fiber optic networks, and they are talking about upgrading to docsis 2.0 (or 3?) with speeds over 100mb/s which is faster than my local network is.  So I may have to switch to gigabit ethernet in a few years.

Whoa it went to 38 after I posted this.  Are points related to blogging?

Rock on people!

If you're using Windows XP, the upnp.exe app is just hosed up.  If you've been closing and starting BitCommet (or any other apps that use uPnP) they tend to screw up the app. Apparently BitComet relies on the responce from upnp.exe to see if the port is open, rather than checking it directly.

This is most noticeable when you reboot your PC, and you'll see a quick error message about upnp.exe won't close properly, or it's taking to long to close before your PC shuts down.

So it's nothing to worry about.  As long as you didn't change your port number, and you're seeing normal transfer speeds and you're seeing connections come and go; you're fine.

<hours later>

Okay nevermind, the rankings are back to normal now, and I'm under 700 now. I was a little paranoied thinking that all the top seeders got aresseted or something. >Phew!<

The practice of breaking up files like this was back over 10 year ago when there was no web, and floppy disks were the best way to move data around, and back in the day when we had slow dialup modems, and call up BBSes to get our stuff.

People would break up large downloads into 1.4meg chuncks so it would fit on a series of floppy disks. As time went on and we all had 100mb ZIP disks, then CDRs, and DVD-Rs, those file chunks got bigger.  The idea was if one part of the DL was corrupted, or stopped, you didn't have to start the whole download all over again from the start.  You had to manually pick each of 100s of files to download, to get the entire thing.

But this is totally unneccessary with bit torrent.  It's a non-linear way of downloading, so what you download first is what you don't have and is easy to download now, not always the start of the file.

BT takes care of the parts of the download, and automaticlaly verifies parts of the download incase they are corrupted during download (unless the original seed was already corupted)

So, Weclome to the 21st century morons!  Keep the BT downloads simple stupid!